Astronauts are now stuck on International Space Station indefinitely due to issue with Boeing Starliner

that just sounds like a Coen Brother's movie.

Remember when ISIS took credit for the Vegas shooting? Imagine if the US just went with the narrative and ISIS commanders become concerned because now they have no choice but to keep up the farce or else they lose face lol

There was that plane that crashed in the Far Rockaways like a month after 9/11. If the circumstances of that crash had been slightly different, veered more towards a denser neighborhood, yeah it would’ve a 9/11 of negligence.

You know the thing about conspiracies is that they often underestimate just how bad the real world actualy is.

So forget 9/11, current year American aviation is going through a severe crisis, Blancolirio posted about this recently covering the recent close calls.

So its not like its impossible to have multiple failures and a massive coverup, its just that these failures would have been happening for months before and probably after 9/11.

In the current situation though, its literally a miracle there was no major incident so far, ignoring the Boeing stuff obviously.

That would be a plot twist on par with One Piece. If that's the case and we, as an audience, had to learn a bunch of class consciousness for it to make sense then that's good writing. If, then, JFK were the victim of a negligent shampoo company, then I would spend the rest of my life curating and teaching American history so it can be told in the same order I learned it.

It's the simplest explanation and therefore Occam's Razor says it's true.

Soyuz's design is good, including the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket, the crew vehicle called Soyuz, and the Soyuz-derived uncrewed cargo vehicle called Progress. But there have been major quality control issues over the past decade on all three. Propellant leaks, coolant leaks, a failed booster that caused an in-flight abort of a crew flight, holes in vehicles, all sorts of issues. And Salyut-derived ISS modules have had their own issues, such as Nauka's uncontrolled thruster firing after docking to the ISS which sent the whole station into an uncontrolled slow spin until it ran out of thruster fuel.

I respect the work of Chief Designer and his colleagues during the USSR era but I have little faith in Roscosmos' QA.

Cutting-corner technology

They are claustrophobic as shit, but they seem to have gotten the kinks out 50+ years ago. I wonder if the successor is gonna be just as reliable

parable of the sower was written over 30 years ago before widespread adoption of the internet and other major technological innovations and social changes. how much could she really have gotten right?

Beginning in 2024, when society in the United States has grown unstable due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed, Parable of the Sower takes the form of a journal kept by Lauren Oya Olamina, an African American teenager.

The dirty secret of US spaceflight is that it was always private. NASA has never built a rocket that can go to orbit, or orbital crew vehicles. It's all been private contractors, ever since the pre-NASA NACA days.

Not even that, they already discovered leaks and shit before launch but went ahead with the launch anyways because waiting 2 more months will impact share values.

It's always projection.

What does the soyuz crew do then?

Remember in The Martian when China helps save the American astronaut from certain death, thus bringing the entire world closer together? That was cool.

Anyway, sure is a shame these astronauts will die up there.

Starliner is approved to stay docked to the ISS for 45 days - which would be July 21 - or up to 90 days using various backup systems and depending largely on the health of its lithium ion batteries, which have caused concerns in the past.

sounds like its more than just the 2 are at risk by leaving it docked, too.

A lithium battery fire on the ISS would have to be one of the absolute worst nightmare scenarios

The alternative is not dying in space, it's riding down on a Russian craft.

ISS thankfully can house non Boeing spacecraft so they’ll be fine. The ISS should ban Boeing imo otherwise it’ll end up like the scene from Interstellar when the spacecraft explodes.

:scooby-fred: Let's learn the true identity of the evil AI!
pulls off the mask
:scooby-fred: Old Man Capital?!

they aren't stranded, except by boeing/nasa's pride